Paul Ryan credits Lennon & McCartney for Soc. Sec. reform plan

[jberryhill]

In an interview to be broadcast tomorrow, Ryan says:

"You want specifics, and you're right, you should have them. But I want to know that I'm a new generation of Republican, in touch with the music of our times - like Foghat, and Kiss before Gene Simmons became an asshole. So, I was hanging out with my college roommates, and we were listening to the Beatles. You know, spinning Revolution Number Nine backwards on the turntable. And we were talking about how Charles Manson claimed he was inspired by hidden messages in Beatles music - and it hit me that the Beatles had a warning and a plan for saving Social Security, which I boil down to:

We're not gonna need you,
We're not gonna feed you,
When you're 64 "

[mucifer]

1. I was thinking about the song where they whine about being rich and paying too much taxes

I like a lot of the Beatles songs.

But, this one I really hate.

[NashvilleLefty]

4. Their tax rate was 95%.

Remember the line "should 5% appear too small", they weren't kidding. That's what they actually got to keep after taxes.

[jberryhill]

9. They had to rebuild after the war too

The 1960's were well within historical shouting distance to their personal encounter with national extinction.

[HiPointDem]

21. yet they remained rich.

[jberryhill]

23. Nonsense - there are no wealthy people in the UK...

...nor in all of Europe, for that matter.

[HiPointDem]

31. you can't be serious.

[jberryhill]

32. But I can be Hugh!

Everyone in the UK and Europe generally dresses in rags and are constantly suffering from illness, as a consequence of their lack of access to healthcare.

Moreover, they all hate America, and tend to be godless zombies in thrall to Marxist ideology.

They cannot accomplish anything of consequence unless we do it for them. They wear socks with sandals, and they hardly ever bathe - except for the French, who wash only their genitals in curious bathroom fixtures.

[HiPointDem]

34. :>) reminds me of this song i recently discovered:

Vestibules, I Don't Want to Go to Toronto

[graywarrior]

2. WTF?

[jberryhill]

17. This might help....

[Honeycombe8]

3. You should say if you're making stuff up. nt

[jberryhill]

7. Okay. I'm making stuff up.

It's all the rage now.

Even a presidential campaign is doing it.

[ashling]

5. All the lonely people

[jberryhill]

6. Where DO they all come from?

[Suji to Seoul]

11. Mitt Romney's campaigned in a place to host 80,000 names. . .Nobody came

Lil Paulie Ryan ran a marathon in exactly 86 seconds flat
No one can beat that

All the hopeless people. . .where do they all come from.
All the hopeless campaign. . .where do they all belong?

[jberryhill]

12. Oh, that's the food stamp plan...

Pick up the rice at the church where a wedding has been.

Boil some, melt some put it in a pie...

[Major Hogwash]

8. So? Sister Sarah thought that Lennon & McCartney were the first 2 dictators of Russia.

[jberryhill]

14. Sure I'm a Marxist!

[lpbk2713]

10. Now we know how many (ass)holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall

They showed up in Tampa a couple of weeks ago.

[jberryhill]

13. They love to turn.... me.....off

Have you seen polythene Ann?

[mick063]

15. Ryan is a fool.

Day after day Alone on a hill The man with the foolish grin Is keeping perfectly still
But nobody wants to know him They can see that he's just a fool And he never gives an answer
But the fool on the hill Sees the sun going down And the eyes in his head See the world spinning round
Well on the way Head in a cloud The man of a thousand voices Talking perfectly loud
But nobody ever hears him Or the sound he appears to make And he never seems to notice
But the fool on the hill Sees the sun going down And the eyes in his head See the world spinning round
And nobody seems to like him They can tell what he wants to do And he never shows his feelings
But the fool on the hill Sees the sun going down And the eyes in his head See the world spinning round
Oh, round, an' round, an' round, an' round, an' round He never listens to them He knows that they're the fools They don't like him
The fool on the hill Sees the sun going down And the eyes in his head See the world spinning round

[jberryhill]

16. Roll up for Mitt's Magical Mystery Tour

You've got an invitation,
To fuck up the nation...

[dogknob]

18. The Lyan King is sooooooo hip and musical! (pic)

[SammyWinstonJack]

19. heh.

[hobbit709]

20. Another Beatles song for Lyin Ryan

[flobee1]

22. you beat me to it!

nt

[lunasun]

28. That was Harrison not Lennon Or McCartney

written by George Harrison as social commentary on class and corporate greed

[hobbit709]

29. You will note i said "Beatles"

[lunasun]

30. just providing additional info because of the OP title -no dig on you

[jberryhill]

33. Harrison was being ironic, Paul Ryan understands this

[spanone]

24. you missed the beatles by light years fuckhead

[jberryhill]

25. He's missed so many things by light years...

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...that he should be commander of his own starship.

[no_hypocrisy]

26. I thought he'd reference "Taxman".

[lunasun]

27. Oh thank heavens he is not listenin to the George Harrison songs at least !

Imagine what he would think about I Me Mine

he could take it wrong and make it his anthem

or Harrison's solo Living in the Material World might turn on Lyan + Rmoney too if misinterpreted

[jberryhill]

37. I'll bet he thinks "My Sweet Lord" is about him

[KamaAina]

35. Foghat and Kiss are "the music of our times"?

Then again, the head of the repuke youth outreach program 'Generation Opportunity" is 48.

[jberryhill]

36. :-) Thank you!